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In the moment, it’s easy to feel like our kitchen design choices will be amazing forever, especially when we’re seeing them all over the internet. It’s hard to imagine ever not loving those beautiful tiles, or that particular paint color.
I’m nearly finished with a to-the-studs-and-joists renovation of a kitchen that’s about a hundred years old (see it here), and peeling back the layers to find the vintage chartreuse green floral linoleum and the cartoony flower and vase wallpaper was a good reminder that yes, the pink and black glass panels on the Samsung Bespoke fridge I’m so excited to buy will likely make someone giggle one day.
So, midway through the year, let’s take a look at what kitchen trends are on their way out, according to the pros. I talked with one of my favorite renovator-designers, Loree Beth Harris of Both Minds Design in Nashville, Tennessee, for the inside scoop on what’s overdone or otherwise past its prime as we pass the halfway mark of 2023.
5. Kitchens and Dining Areas Open to the Entire House
While Harris doesn’t see the open-concept floor plan disappearing anytime soon — especially for those living in a studio apartment — having the kitchen and dining room completely open to the rest of the main floor may be giving way to more structure, she says, especially when it comes to the dining room.
“I am seeing more and more — and I’m very much for — delineated spaces like the dining room,” she says. “I’m very much pro having the dining room kind of separated from the main space. Being able to have those conversations in that smaller space, it just creates a level of intimacy that allows you to connect. There’s a certain ambiance in being able to walk into a room and kind of tuck yourself and sit down at the table and have a meal, as opposed to your dining room being exposed to every other room in the communal space where there’s so much distraction.”
